Course Description and Learning Outcomes:

This course is designed to provide an examination of significant ethical issues and challenges in today's professional business arena, including the manager's social and environmental responsibility to stakeholders; ethical dilemmas and decision-making frameworks and approaches to personal, organizational, and societal levels; and real-world application and analysis of issues.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of key ethical principles and philosophies and the importance of ethical behavior in the business world

2. Analyze the available literature on business ethics to broaden the understanding about ethical challenges in finance and investment sectors of business

3. Identify the obligations and responsibilities of business corporations towards the environment and society

4. Apply critical thinking skills to evaluate ethical issues and conflicts in the corporate world and arrive at measures to resolve them

5. Apply ethical theories to real-life business situations and to make rational decisions

6. Apply knowledge of ethical principles and dilemmas to the corporate world

7. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication to respond to ethical issues